“Our friend Fuseli is going on with more than usual spirit — like Milton he seems quite at home in hell — his Devil will be the hero of the poetic series; for, entre nous, I rather doubt whether he will produce an Eve to please me in any of the situations, which he has selected, unless it be after the fall.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
WORKS
Milton
Book I of Paradise Lost
Book II of Paradise Lost
Book III of Paradise Lost
Book IV of Paradise Lost
Book V of Paradise Lost
Book VI of Paradise Lost
Book VIII of Paradise Lost
Book IX of Paradise Lost
Book X of Paradise Lost
Book XI of Paradise Lost
Book XII of Paradise Lost
Miscellaneous
[Lines from Milton’s Paradise Lost are matched with Fuseli’s Milton Gallery pictures according to the excerpts included in the gallery’s catalogue, as cited in John Knowles, The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, 3 vols. (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831), I, pp. 205–16, 231–32. Lines from Milton’s Paradise Lost are matched with engravings after Fuseli’s pictures for F. J. Du Roveray’s 1802 edition of Paradise Lost according to the lines listed on the illustrations in the two-volume edition itself.]
MILTON
Milton When a Boy Instructed by His Mother
(Milton Gallery #38)
Date
1799–1800
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 91.7 cm
Width: 72.4 cm
Location
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Milton when a Boy, instructed by his Mother
(After Milton Gallery #38)
Engraver
John Perry, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1820
Medium
Stipple and etching
Dimensions
Height: 55.7 cm
Width: 40 cm
Location
British Museum, London
Milton, when a youth
(Milton Gallery #39)
Date
ca. 1796–99
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 128 cm
Width: 103 cm
Location
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Return of Milton’s First Wife, Mary Powell, Imploring his Pardon
Date
1799–1801
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 87.5 cm
Width: 112 cm
Location
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Milton Dictating to His Daughter
(Milton Gallery #40)
Date
1794
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 121.2 cm
Width: 118.7 cm
Location
Art Institute of Chicago
Milton Dictating to his Daughter
(After Milton Gallery #40)
Engraver
Moses Haughton, Jr., after Henry Fuseli
Date
1806
Medium
Stipple
Dimensions
Height: 59.8 cm
Width: 46 cm
Location
British Museum, London
[See also the Digital Commonwealth]
BOOK I OF PARADISE LOST
“This first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole Subject, Man’s disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was plac’t: Then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather Satan in the Serpent; who revolting from God, and drawing to his side many Legions of Angels, was by the command of God driven out of Heaven with all his Crew into the great Deep. Which action past over, the Poem hastes into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell, describ’d here, not in the Centre (for Heaven and Earth may be suppos’d as yet not made, certainly not yet accurst) but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest call’d Chaos: Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake, thunder-struck and astonisht, after a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Order and Dignity lay by him; they confer of thir miserable fall. Satan awakens all his Legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded; They rise, thir Numbers, array of Battle, thir chief Leaders nam’d, according to the Idols known afterwards in Canaan and the Countries adjoining. To these Satan directs his Speech, comforts them with hope yet of regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new World and new kind of Creature to be created, according to an ancient Prophecy or report in Heaven; for that Angels were long before this visible Creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers. To find out the truth of this Prophecy, and what to determine thereon he refers to a full Council. What his Associates thence attempt. Pandemonium the Palace of Satan rises, suddenly built out of the Deep: The infernal Peers there sit in Council.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book I of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
Satan Risen from the Flood, Beelzebub Rising
(Milton Gallery #1)
Date
1797–99
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 442 cm
Width: 366 cm
Location
Stratfield Haye, Berks., H. G.
The Duke of Wellington
[See Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füsslis Milton-Galerie (Zurich/Stuttgart: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, No. 4, 1963), p. 48; Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 25; Luisa Calè, Fuseli’s Milton Gallery: “Turning Readers into Spectators” (New York: Oxford University Press, [2006] 2008), no. 1.]
PL Lines
“Forthwith upright he rears from off the Pool
His mighty Stature; on each hand the flames
Driv’n backward slope thir pointing spires, and roll’d
In billows, leave i’ th’ midst a horrid Vale.…
…Him follow’d his next Mate,
Both glorying to have scap’t the Stygian flood
As Gods…”
(Paradise Lost, Book I, 221–24, 238–40)
Satan Rousing his Legions
(Milton Gallery #2)
Date
1799–1800
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 396 cm
Width: 366 cm
Location
Stratfield Haye, Berks., H. G.
The Duke of Wellington
[See Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füsslis Milton-Galerie (Zurich/Stuttgart: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, No. 4, 1963), p. 46; Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 25; Luisa Calè, Fuseli’s Milton Gallery: “Turning Readers into Spectators” (New York: Oxford University Press, [2006] 2008), no. 2.]
PL Lines
“…on the Beach
Of that inflamed Sea, he stood and call’d
His Legions, Angel Forms, who lay intrans’t
Thick as Autumnal Leaves that strow the Brooks
In Vallombrosa,.…
He call’d so loud, that all the hollow Deep
Of Hell resounded.…
Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n.
They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung…”
(Paradise Lost, Book I, 299–303, 314–15, 330–31)
Satan Rousing his Legions
(After Milton Gallery #2)
Engraver
Peltro William Tomkins, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1803
Medium
Stipple and etching
Dimensions
Height: 18.8 cm
Width: 11.9 cm
Locations
British Museum, London
British Museum (2)
PL Lines
“…on the Beach
Of that inflamed Sea, he stood and call’d
His Legions, Angel Forms, who lay intrans’t
Thick as Autumnal Leaves that strow the Brooks
In Vallombrosa,.…
He call’d so loud, that all the hollow Deep
Of Hell resounded.…
Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n.
They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung…”
(Paradise Lost, Book I, 299–303, 314–15, 330–31)
Satan calling up his Legions
Date
1802
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 91 cm
Width: 71 cm
Location
The Kunsthaus Zürich
PL Lines
“…on the Beach
Of that inflamed Sea, he stood and call’d
His Legions, Angel Forms, who lay intrans’t
Thick as Autumnal Leaves that strow the Brooks
In Vallombrosa,.…
He call’d so loud, that all the hollow Deep
Of Hell resounded.…
Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n.
They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung…”
(Paradise Lost, Book I, 299–303, 314–15, 330–31)
Satan calling up his Legions
Engraver
William Bromley, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1802
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Locations
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n.”
(Paradise Lost, Book I, 330)
The Shepherd’s Dream
Date
1793
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 154.3 cm
Width: 215.3 cm
Height (framed): 178.4 cm
Width (framed): 239.5 cm
Depth (framed): 10.7 cm
Location
Tate Britain, London
PL Lines
“…Faery Elves,
Whose midnight Revels, by a Forest side
Or Fountain some belated Peasant sees,
Or dreams he sees, while over-head the Moon
Sits Arbitress, and nearer to the Earth
Wheels her pale course; they on thir mirth and dance
Intent, with jocund Music charm his ear;
At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.”
(Paradise Lost, Book I, 781–88)
BOOK II OF PARADISE LOST
“The Consultation begun, Satan debates whether another Battle be to be hazarded for the recovery of Heaven: some advise it, others dissuade: A third proposal is preferr’d, mention’d before by Satan, to search the truth of that Prophecy or Tradition in Heaven concerning another world, and another kind of creature equal or not much inferior to themselves, about this time to be created: Thir doubt who shall be sent on this difficult search: Satan thir chief undertakes alone the voyage, is honor’d and applauded. The Council thus ended, the rest betake them several ways and to several employments, as thir inclinations lead them, to entertain the time till Satan return. He passes on his Journey to Hell Gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them, by whom at length they are op’n’d, and discover to him the great Gulf between Hell and Heaven; with what difficulty he passes through, directed by Chaos, the Power of that place, to the sight of this new World which he sought.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book II of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
Satan and Death Separated by Sin
Date
1776
Medium
Pen and brown ink with grey and brown wash, over graphite
Dimensions
Height: 26.2 cm
Width: 37.7 cm
Locations
British Museum, London
[See also The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford]
PL Lines
“…and now great deeds
Had been achiev’d, whereof all Hell had rung,
Had not the Snaky Sorceress that sat
Fast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
Ris’n, and with hideous outcry rush’d between.…
She finish’d, and the subtle Fiend his lore
Soon learn’d, now milder…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 722–26, 815–16)
Satan encount’ring Death, Sin interposing
[Copy of Milton Gallery #5 (ca. 1793–96)]
Date
1799–1800
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 67.31 cm
Width: 58.42 cm
Height (framed): 82.55 cm
Width (framed): 73.66 cm
Depth (framed): 8.89 cm
Location
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
PL Lines
“…and now great deeds
Had been achiev’d, whereof all Hell had rung,
Had not the Snaky Sorceress that sat
Fast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
Ris’n, and with hideous outcry rush’d between.…
She finish’d, and the subtle Fiend his lore
Soon learn’d, now milder…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 722–26, 815–16)
Satan and Death Separated by Sin
Date
1802
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 91.3 cm
Width: 71.1 cm
Location
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek, Munich
PL Lines
“So spake the grisly terror, and in shape,
So speaking and so threat’ning, grew tenfold
More dreadful and deform: on th’ other side
Incens’t with indignation Satan stood
Unterrifi’d, and like a Comet burn’d.…
So frown’d the mighty Combatants, that Hell
Grew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood;
For never but once more was either like
To meet so great a foe: and now great deeds
Had been achiev’d, whereof all Hell had rung,
Had not the Snaky Sorceress that sat
Fast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
Ris’n, and with hideous outcry rush’d between.
O Father, what intends thy hand, she cri’d,
Against thy only Son? What fury O Son,
Possesses thee to bend that mortal Dart
Against thy Father’s head?”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 704–08, 719–30)
Satan and Death Separated by Sin
Engraver
James Neagle, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1802
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Height: 22.8 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Location
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“O Father, what intends thy hand, she cri’d,
Against thy only Son?”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 727–28)
Two Nude Heroic Studies
[After a preparatory study for Satan and Death Separated by Sin (1802)]
Etcher
Robert Balmanno, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1809
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 31.8 cm
Location
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“…Incens’t with indignation Satan stood
Unterrifi’d, and like a Comet burn’d…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 707–08)
Satan and the Birth of Sin
(Milton Gallery #6)
Date
ca. 1795
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 142.55 cm
Width: 118.74 cm
Height (framed): 176.84 cm
Width (framed): 153.67 cm
Depth (framed): 12.7 cm
Location
Dallas Museum of Art
PL Lines
“…All on a sudden miserable pain
Surpris’d thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum
In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast
Threw forth, till on the left side op’ning wide,
Likest to thee in shape and count’nance bright,
Then shining heav’nly fair, a Goddess arm’d
Out of thy head I sprung…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 752–58)
Satan Defying the Powers of Heaven
[Preparatory study for Satan and the Birth of Sin (ca. 1795)?]
Date
ca. 1790s
Medium
Graphite, black chalk, and brown and gray wash on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 42.2 cm
Width: 27.7 cm
Locations
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [Recto]
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [Verso]
PL Lines
“…All on a sudden miserable pain
Surpris’d thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum
In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast
Threw forth, till on the left side op’ning wide,
Likest to thee in shape and count’nance bright,
Then shining heav’nly fair, a Goddess arm’d
Out of thy head I sprung…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 752–58)
The Birth of Sin
(After Milton Gallery #6)
Engraver
Abraham Raimbach, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1796–1863
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Height: 8.4 cm
Width: 4 cm
Location
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“…All on a sudden miserable pain
Surpris’d thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum
In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast
Threw forth, till on the left side op’ning wide,
Likest to thee in shape and count’nance bright,
Then shining heav’nly fair, a Goddess arm’d
Out of thy head I sprung…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 752–58)
The Birth of Sin / The Shepherd’s Dream
Engraver
Andrew Duncan, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1821
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Height: 10 cm (Sheet)
Width: 13.5 cm (Sheet)
Height: 7.8 cm (Birth of Sin image)
Width: 5 cm (Birth of Sin image)
Height: 5 cm (Shepherd’s Dream image)
Width: 6 cm (Shepherd’s Dream image)
Location
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“…All on a sudden miserable pain
Surpris’d thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum
In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast
Threw forth, till on the left side op’ning wide,
Likest to thee in shape and count’nance bright,
Then shining heav’nly fair, a Goddess arm’d
Out of thy head I sprung…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 752–58)
“…Faery Elves,
Whose midnight Revels, by a Forest side
Or Fountain some belated Peasant sees,
Or dreams he sees, while over-head the Moon
Sits Arbitress, and nearer to the Earth
Wheels her pale course; they on thir mirth and dance
Intent, with jocund Music charm his ear;
At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.”
(Paradise Lost, Book I, 781–88)
Sin pursued by Death
(Milton Gallery #7)
Date
1794–96
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 119 cm
Width: 132 cm
Location
The Kunsthaus Zürich
PL Lines
“…I fled, and cri’d out Death;.…
I fled, but he pursu’d…
…and swifter far,
Mee overtook…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 787, 790–92)
Study for Sin pursued by Death
Date
1796
Medium
Graphite on oiled paper
Dimensions
Height: 15 cm
Width: 21.6 cm
Location
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“…I fled, and cri’d out Death;.…
I fled, but he pursu’d…
…and swifter far,
Mee overtook…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 787, 790–92)
Sin pursued by Death
(After Milton Gallery #7)
Engraver
Moses Haughton, Jr., after Henry Fuseli
Date
1804
Medium
Stipple and aquatint
Dimensions
Height: 47.2 cm
Width: 58.7 cm
Locations
British Museum, London
British Museum (2)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
PL Lines
“…I fled, and cri’d out Death;.…
I fled, but he pursu’d…
…and swifter far,
Mee overtook…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 787, 790–92)
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches
(Milton Gallery #8)
Date
1796
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 101.6 cm
Width: 126.4 cm
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
PL Lines
“…follow the Night-Hag, when call’d
In secret, riding through the Air she comes
Lur’d with the smell of infant blood, to dance
With Lapland Witches, while the laboring Moon
Eclipses at thir charms.”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 662–66)
Satan leaving the Gate of Hell, guarded by Sin and Death
Date
1821
Medium
Pencil with grey wash, brown wash and yellow wash
Dimensions
Height: 39.8 cm
Width: 30.1 cm
Location
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
PL Lines
“…At last his Sail-broad Vans
He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke
Uplifted spurns the ground…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 927–29)
Satan Departing from the Court of Chaos
Date
1781–82
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, reddish-brown, and black washes, with touches of red watercolor and white chalk, on paper
Dimensions
Height: 38.7 cm
Width: 50 cm
Location
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
PL Lines
“He ceas’d; and Satan stay’d not to reply,
But glad that now his Sea should find a shore,
With fresh alacrity and force renew’d
Springs upward like a Pyramid of fire
Into the wild expanse, and through the shock
Of fighting Elements, on all sides round
Environ’d wins his way…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 1010–16)
Satan Bursts from Chaos
(Milton Gallery #11)
Date
1794–96
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 126 cm
Width: 101 cm
Location
Private collection, Zurich
[See the Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich]
[See also Akg-images]
PL Lines
“He ceas’d; and Satan stay’d not to reply,
But.…
Springs upward like a Pyramid of fire…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 1010–11, 1013)
Odysseus between Scylla and Charybdis
(Milton Gallery #12)
Date
1794–96
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 126 cm
Width: 101 cm
Location
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
[See also Akg-images]
PL Lines
“…harder beset.…
[Than] when Ulysses on the Larboard shunn’d
Charybdis, and by th’ other whirlpool steer’d.
So he with difficulty and labor hard
Mov’d on, with difficulty and labor hee…”
(Paradise Lost, Book II, 1016, 1019–22)
BOOK III OF PARADISE LOST
“God sitting on his Throne sees Satan flying towards this world, then newly created; shows him to the Son who sat at his right hand; foretells the success of Satan in perverting mankind; clears his own Justice and Wisdom from all imputation, having created Man free and able enough to have withstood his Tempter; yet declares his purpose of grace towards him, in regard he fell not of his own malice, as did Satan, but by him seduc’t. The Son of God renders praises to his Father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards Man; but God again declares, that Grace cannot be extended towards Man without the satisfaction of divine Justice; Man hath offended the majesty of God by aspiring to Godhead, and therefore with all his Progeny devoted to death must die, unless some one can be found sufficient to answer for his offense, and undergo his Punishment. The Son of God freely offers himself a Ransom for Man: the Father accepts him, ordains his incarnation, pronounces his exaltation above all Names in Heaven and Earth; commands all the Angels to adore him; they obey, and hymning to thir Harps in full Choir, celebrate the Father and the Son. Meanwhile Satan alights upon the bare convex of this World’s outermost Orb; where wand’ring he first finds a place since call’d The Limbo of Vanity; what persons and things fly up thither; thence comes to the Gate of Heaven, describ’d ascending by stairs, and the waters above the Firmament that flow about it: His passage thence to the Orb of the Sun; he finds there Uriel the Regent of that Orb, but first changes himself into the shape of a meaner Angel; and pretending a zealous desire to behold the new Creation and Man whom God had plac’t there, inquires of him the place of his habitation, and is directed; alights first on Mount Niphates.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book III of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
Uriel observes Satan on his flight to the earth
Date
1802
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 91.5 cm
Width: 71.5 cm
Location
Private collection
[See the Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich]
[See also Akg-images]
PL Lines
“Thus said, he turn’d, and Satan bowing low,
As to superior Spirits is wont in Heav’n,
Where honor due and reverence none neglects,
Took leave, and toward the coast of Earth beneath,
Down from th’ Ecliptic, sped with hop’d success,
Throws his steep flight in many an Aery wheel,
Nor stay’d, till on Niphates’ top he lights.”
(Paradise Lost, Book III, 736–42)
Uriel observes Satan on his flight to the earth
Engraver
Charles Warren, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1802
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 15.1 cm
Location
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“Down from th’ Ecliptic, sped with hop’d success,
Throws his steep flight in many an Aery wheel…”
(Paradise Lost, Book III, 740–41)
BOOK IV OF PARADISE LOST
“Satan now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprise which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despair; but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise, whose outward prospect and situation is described, overleaps the bounds, sits in the shape of a Cormorant on the Tree of Life, as highest in the Garden to look about him. The Garden describ’d; Satan’s first sight of Adam and Eve; his wonder at thir excellent form and happy state, but with resolution to work thir fall; overhears thir discourse, thence gathers that the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden them to eat of, under penalty of death; and thereon intends to found his Temptation, by seducing them to transgress: then leaves them a while, to know further of thir state by some other means. Meanwhile Uriel descending on a Sun-beam warns Gabriel, who had in charge the Gate of Paradise, that some evil spirit had escap’d the Deep, and past at Noon by his Sphere in the shape of a good Angel down to Paradise, discovered after by his furious gestures in the Mount. Gabriel promises to find him ere morning. Night coming on, Adam and Eve discourse of going to thir rest: thir Bower describ’d; thir Evening worship. Gabriel drawing forth his Bands of Night-watch to walk the round of Paradise, appoints two strong Angels to Adam’s Bower, lest the evil spirit should be there doing some harm to Adam or Eve sleeping; there they find him at the ear of Eve, tempting her in a dream, and bring him, though unwilling, to Gabriel; by whom question’d, he scornfully answers, prepares resistance, but hinder’d by a Sign from Heaven, flies out of Paradise.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book IV of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
Study for Adam and Eve, first observed by Satan
Date
1796–99
Medium
Pen and sepia on pencil
Dimensions
Height: 30.6 cm
Width: 18.5 cm
Location
The Kunsthaus Zürich
[See Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 38; Luisa Calè, Fuseli’s Milton Gallery: “Turning Readers into Spectators” (New York: Oxford University Press, [2006] 2008), no. 11.]
PL Lines
“Under a tuft of shade that on a green
Stood whispering soft, by a fresh Fountain side
They sat them down.…
Nor gentle purpose, nor endearing smiles
Wanted, nor youthful dalliance as beseems
Fair couple, linkt in happy nuptial League,
Alone as they.…
…aside the Devil turn’d
For envy, yet with jealous leer malign
Ey’d them askance…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IV, 325–27, 337–40, 502–04)
Adam and Eve
(Milton Gallery #13)
Date
1796–99
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 73 cm
Width: 54 cm
Location
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
[See also Akg-images]
PL Lines
“Under a tuft of shade that on a green
Stood whispering soft, by a fresh Fountain side
They sat them down.…
Nor gentle purpose, nor endearing smiles
Wanted, nor youthful dalliance as beseems
Fair couple, linkt in happy nuptial League,
Alone as they.…
…aside the Devil turn’d
For envy, yet with jealous leer malign
Ey’d them askance…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IV, 325–27, 337–40, 502–04)
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Spear
Date
1776
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brown and grey wash, over graphite
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm
Width: 41 cm
Locations
British Museum, London
The Cleveland Museum of Art
[See also Christie’s]
PL Lines
“Him thus intent Ithuriel with his Spear
Touch’d lightly;.…
…up he starts
Discover’d and surpris’d. As when a spark
Lights on a heap of nitrous Powder,.…
…the Smutty grain
With sudden blaze diffus’d, inflames the Air:
So started up in his own shape the Fiend.
Back stepp’d those two fair Angels half amaz’d
So sudden to behold the grisly King…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IV, 810–11, 813–15, 817–21)
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Spear
Date
1779
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 230.5 cm
Width: 276.3 cm
Location
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
[See also Akg-images]
PL Lines
“Him thus intent Ithuriel with his Spear
Touch’d lightly;.…
…up he starts
Discover’d and surpris’d. As when a spark
Lights on a heap of nitrous Powder,.…
…the Smutty grain
With sudden blaze diffus’d, inflames the Air:
So started up in his own shape the Fiend.
Back stepp’d those two fair Angels half amaz’d
So sudden to behold the grisly King…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IV, 810–11, 813–15, 817–21)
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Spear
Date
1802
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 91.4 cm
Width: 71 cm
Location
Private collection
[See the Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich]
[See also Akg-images]
PL Lines
“Him thus intent Ithuriel with his Spear
Touch’d lightly;.…
…up he starts
Discover’d and surpris’d. As when a spark
Lights on a heap of nitrous Powder,.…
…the Smutty grain
With sudden blaze diffus’d, inflames the Air:
So started up in his own shape the Fiend.
Back stepp’d those two fair Angels half amaz’d
So sudden to behold the grisly King…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IV, 810–11, 813–15, 817–21)
Satan Starting from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Spear
Engraver
Anker Smith, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1802
Medium
Etching and engraving on chine appliqué
Dimensions
Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 15.2 cm (platemark)
Locations
British Museum, London
British Museum (2)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
PL Lines
“…up he starts
Discover’d and surpris’d.”
(Paradise Lost, Book IV, 813–14)
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Spear
Engraver
Louis Marie Normand, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1823
Medium
Etching on creme paper
Dimensions
Height: 29.6 cm
Width: 23 cm
Locations
British Museum, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
PL Lines
“Him thus intent Ithuriel with his Spear
Touch’d lightly;.…
…up he starts
Discover’d and surpris’d. As when a spark
Lights on a heap of nitrous Powder,.…
…the Smutty grain
With sudden blaze diffus’d, inflames the Air:
So started up in his own shape the Fiend.
Back stepp’d those two fair Angels half amaz’d
So sudden to behold the grisly King…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IV, 810–11, 813–15, 817–21)
Satan Musing on his Works (Satan discovering his fate in the scale aloft, flying from Gabriel and the Angelic Squadron)
[Fragment of Milton Gallery #15 (1796–99)]
Date
1790–1800
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 87 cm
Width: 77 cm
Location
Private collection, New York
[See Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 40.]
PL Lines
“…On th’ other side Satan alarm’d
Collecting all his might dilated stood.…
…The Fiend lookt up and knew
His mounted scale aloft: nor more; but fled
Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.”
(Paradise Lost, Book IV, 985–86, 1013–15)
BOOK V OF PARADISE LOST
“Morning approacht, Eve relates to Adam her troublesome dream; he likes it not, yet comforts her: They come forth to thir day labors: Thir Morning Hymn at the Door of thir Bower. God to render Man inexcusable sends Raphael to admonish him of his obedience, of his free estate, of his enemy near at hand; who he is, and why his enemy, and whatever else may avail Adam to know. Raphael comes down to Paradise, his appearance describ’d, his coming discern’d by Adam afar off sitting at the door of his Bower; he goes out to meet him, brings him to his lodge, entertains him with the choicest fruits of Paradise got together by Eve; thir discourse at Table: Raphael performs his message, minds Adam of his state and of his enemy; relates at Adam’s request who that enemy is, and how he came to be so, beginning from his first revolt in Heaven, and the occasion thereof; how he drew his Legions after him to the parts of the North, and there incited them to rebel with him, persuading all but only Abdiel a Seraph, who in Argument dissuades and opposes him, then forsakes him.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book V of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
The Dream of Eve
(Milton Gallery #16)
Date
1796–99
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 102 cm
Width: 96 cm
Location
Bourg, London
[See Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 41.]
PL Lines
“…One shap’d and wing’d like one of those from Heav’n.…
…Forthwith up to the Clouds
With him I flew, and underneath beheld
The Earth outstretcht immense.…
…suddenly
My Guide was gone, and I, methought, sunk down,
And fell asleep;…”
(Paradise Lost, Book V.55, 86–88, 90–92)
The Dream of Eve
(After Milton Gallery #16)
Engraver
Moses Haughton, Jr., after Henry Fuseli
Date
1804
Medium
Stipple and aquatint
Dimensions
Height: 56.6 cm
Width: 48.2 cm (platemark)
Locations
British Museum, London
British Museum (2)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
PL Lines
“…One shap’d and wing’d like one of those from Heav’n.…
…Forthwith up to the Clouds
With him I flew, and underneath beheld
The Earth outstretcht immense.…
…suddenly
My Guide was gone, and I, methought, sunk down,
And fell asleep;…”
(Paradise Lost, Book V.55, 86–88, 90–92)
BOOK VI OF PARADISE LOST
“Raphael continues to relate how Michael and Gabriel were sent forth to Battle against Satan and his Angels. To first Fight describ’d: Satan and his Powers retire under Night: He calls a Council, invents devilish Engines, which in the second day’s Fight put Michael and his Angels to some disorder; but they at length pulling up Mountains overwhelm’d both the force and Machines of Satan: Yet the Tumult not so ending, God on the third day sends Messiah his Son, for whom he had reserv’d the glory of that Victory: Hee in the Power of his Father coming to the place, and causing all his Legions to stand still on either side, with his Chariot and Thunder driving into the midst of his Enemies, pursues them unable to resist towards the wall of Heaven; which opening, they leap down with horror and confusion into the place of punishment prepar’d for them in the Deep: Messiah returns with triumph to his Father.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book VI of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
The Triumphant Messiah
Date
1802
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 90 cm
Width: 70 cm
Location
Private collection
[See Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 89.]
PL Lines
“The overthrown he rais’d, and as a Herd
Of Goats or timorous flock together throng’d
Drove them before him Thunder-struck, pursu’d
With terrors and with furies to the bounds
And Crystal wall of Heav’n, which op’ning wide,
Roll’d inward, and a spacious Gap disclos’d
Into the wasteful Deep; the monstrous sight
Struck them with horror backward, but far worse
Urg’d them behind; headlong themselves they threw
Down from the verge of Heav’n, Eternal wrath
Burn’d after them to the bottomless pit.”
(Paradise Lost, Book VI, 856–66)
The Triumphant Messiah
Engraver
Charles Warren, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1802
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.1 cm
Location
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“…headlong themselves they threw
Down from the verge of Heav’n…”
(Paradise Lost, Book VI, 864–65)
The Falling Satan
Date
1801–02
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 174 cm
Width: 121 cm
Location
La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
[See Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 91.]
PL Lines
“The overthrown he rais’d, and as a Herd
Of Goats or timorous flock together throng’d
Drove them before him Thunder-struck, pursu’d
With terrors and with furies to the bounds
And Crystal wall of Heav’n, which op’ning wide,
Roll’d inward, and a spacious Gap disclos’d
Into the wasteful Deep; the monstrous sight
Struck them with horror backward, but far worse
Urg’d them behind; headlong themselves they threw
Down from the verge of Heav’n, Eternal wrath
Burn’d after them to the bottomless pit.”
(Paradise Lost, Book VI, 856–66)
BOOK VIII OF PARADISE LOST
“Adam inquires concerning celestial Motions, is doubtfully answer’d, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge: Adam assents, and still desirous to detain Raphael, relates to him what he remember’d since his own Creation, his placing in Paradise, his talk with God concerning solitude and fit society, his first meeting and Nuptials with Eve, his discourse with the Angel thereupon; who after admonitions repeated departs.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book VIII of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
The Creation of Eve
(Milton Gallery #17)
Date
1793
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 307 cm
Width: 207 cm
Location
The Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
[See Akg-images]
PL Lines
“…Abstract as in a trance methought I saw,
Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape
Still glorious before whom awake I stood;
Who stooping op’n’d my left side, and took
From thence a Rib.…
Under his forming hands a Creature grew,
…so lovely fair,
That what seem’d fair in all the World, seem’d now
Mean, or in her summ’d up…”
(Paradise Lost, Book VIII, 462–66, 470–73)
The Creation of Eve
(After Milton Gallery #17)
Engraver
Moses Haughton, Jr., after Henry Fuseli
Date
1803
Medium
Stipple and etching
Dimensions
Height: 29.3 cm
Width: 22.2 cm
Locations
British Museum, London
British Museum (2)
PL Lines
“…Abstract as in a trance methought I saw,
Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape
Still glorious before whom awake I stood;
Who stooping op’n’d my left side, and took
From thence a Rib.…
Under his forming hands a Creature grew,
…so lovely fair,
That what seem’d fair in all the World, seem’d now
Mean, or in her summ’d up…”
(Paradise Lost, Book VIII, 462–66, 470–73)
The Creation of Eve
(After Milton Gallery #17)
Engraver
John Dadley, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1807
Medium
Line- and stipple-engraving
Dimensions
Height: 13.9 cm
Width: 8.8 cm
Locations
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
PL Lines
“…Abstract as in a trance methought I saw,
Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape
Still glorious before whom awake I stood;
Who stooping op’n’d my left side, and took
From thence a Rib.…
Under his forming hands a Creature grew,
…so lovely fair,
That what seem’d fair in all the World, seem’d now
Mean, or in her summ’d up…”
(Paradise Lost, Book VIII, 462–66, 470–73)
BOOK IX OF PARADISE LOST
“Satan having compast the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by Night into Paradise, enters into the Serpent sleeping. Adam and Eve in the Morning go forth to thir labors, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each laboring apart: Adam consents not, alleging the danger, lest that Enemy, of whom they were forewarn’d, should attempt her found alone: Eve loath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make trial of her strength; Adam at last yields: The Serpent finds her alone; his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling Eve above all other Creatures. Eve wond’ring to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attain’d to human speech and such understanding not till now; the Serpent answers, that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attain’d both to Speech and Reason, till then void of both: Eve requires him to bring her to that Tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden: The Serpent now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat; she pleas’d with the taste deliberates awhile whether to impart thereof to Adam or not, at last brings him of the Fruit, relates what persuaded her to eat thereof: Adam at first amaz’d, but perceiving her lost, resolves through vehemence of love to perish with her; and extenuating the trespass, eats also of the Fruit: The effects thereof in them both; they seek to cover thir nakedness; then fall to variance and accusation of one another.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book IX of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
Study for Eve at the Forbidden Tree
Date
1794–96
Medium
Pen and wash
Dimensions
Height: 52 cm
Width: 34 cm
Location
The Kunsthaus Zürich
[See Franziska Lentzsch, ed. Fuseli: The Wild Swiss (Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2005), p. 228; Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 45.]
PL Lines
“…her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck’d, she eat.…
…Back to the Thicket slunk
The guilty Serpent…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IX, 780–81, 784–85)
The Serpent tempting Eve (Satan’s First Address to Eve)
(Milton Gallery #42)
Date
1802
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
Height: 30.2 cm
Width: 23.8 cm
Location
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
PL Lines
“…Eve separate he spies,
Veil’d in a Cloud of Fragrance, where she stood,
Half spi’d, so thick the Roses bushing round
About her glow’d, oft stooping to support
Each Flow’r of slender stalk.…
Hee bolder now, uncall’d before her stood;
But as in gaze admiring.…
His gentle dumb expression turn’d at length
The Eye of Eve…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IX, 424–28, 523–24, 527–28)
The Temptation of Eve
(After Milton Gallery #42)
Engraver
John Sharpe, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1805
Medium
Stipple and etching
Dimensions
Height: 13.1 cm
Width: 8.5 cm
Location
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“…Eve separate he spies,
Veil’d in a Cloud of Fragrance, where she stood,
Half spi’d, so thick the Roses bushing round
About her glow’d, oft stooping to support
Each Flow’r of slender stalk.…
Hee bolder now, uncall’d before her stood;
But as in gaze admiring.…
His gentle dumb expression turn’d at length
The Eye of Eve…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IX, 424–28, 523–24, 527–28)
Adam resolved to share the fate of Eve; The Guardian Angels leave the Garden of Eden
(After Milton Gallery #20)
Engraver
Moses Haughton, Jr., after Henry Fuseli
Date
1806
Medium
Stipple engraving with aquatint
Dimensions
Height: 57.2 cm
Width: 46.5 cm
Locations
British Museum, London
British Museum (2)
British Museum (3)
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
[See also Akg-images]
PL Lines
“…if Death
Consort with thee, Death is to mee as Life;
So forcible within my heart I feel
The Bond of Nature draw me to my own,
My own in thee, for what thou art is mine;
Our State cannot be sever’d, we are one,
One Flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
So Adam, and thus Eve to him repli’d.
O glorious trial of exceeding Love,
Illustrious evidence, example high!.…
So saying, she embrac’d him, and for joy
Tenderly wept…”
(Paradise Lost, Book IX, 953–62, 990–91)
“Up into Heav’n from Paradise in haste
Th’ Angelic Guards ascended, mute and sad
For Man…”
(Paradise Lost, Book X, 17–19)
BOOK X OF PARADISE LOST
“Man’s transgression known, the Guardian Angels forsake Paradise, and return up to Heaven to approve thir vigilance, and are approv’d, God declaring that the entrance of Satan could not be by them prevented. He sends his Son to judge the Transgressors, who descends and gives Sentence accordingly; then in pity clothes them both, and reascends. Sin and Death sitting till then at the Gates of Hell, by wondrous sympathy feeling the success of Satan in this new World, and the sin by Man there committed, resolve to sit no longer confin’d in Hell, but to follow Satan thir Sire up to the place of Man: To make the way easier from Hell to this World to and fro, they pave a broad Highway or Bridge over Chaos, according to the Track that Satan first made; then preparing for Earth, they meet him proud of his success returning to Hell; thir mutual gratulation. Satan arrives at Pandemonium, in full assembly relates with boasting his success against Man; instead of applause is entertained with a general hiss by all his audience, transform’d with himself also suddenly into Serpents, according to his doom giv’n in Paradise; then deluded with a show of the forbidden Tree springing up before them, they greedily reaching to take of the Fruit, chew dust and bitter ashes. The proceedings of Sin and Death; God foretells the final Victory of his Son over them, and the renewing of all things; but for the present commands his Angels to make several alterations in the Heavens and Elements. Adam more and more perceiving his fall’n condition heavily bewails, rejects the condolement of Eve; she persists and at length appeases him: then to evade the Curse likely to fall on thir Offspring, proposes to Adam violent ways, which he approves not, but conceiving better hope, puts her in mind of the late Promise made them, that her Seed should be reveng’d on the Serpent, and exhorts her with him to seek Peace of the offended Deity, by repentance and supplication.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book X of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
Sin and Death bridging chaos meet Satan on his return from Earth
[Preparatory study for Milton Gallery #22?]
Date
ca. 1790s?
Medium
Pencil and wash
Dimensions
Height: 30.8 cm
Width: 38.2 cm
Location
Private collection
[See Artnet]
[See also Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 46.]
PL Lines
“…The aggregated Soil
Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,
As with a Trident smote,.…
…and the Mole immense wrought on
Over the foaming deep high Archt, a Bridge
Of length prodigious.…
…when behold
Satan in likeness of an Angel bright.…
…Sin, his fair
Enchanting Daughter, thus the silence broke.
O Parent, these are thy magnific deeds…”
(Paradise Lost, Book X, 293–95, 300–02, 326–27, 352–54)
Death and Sin bridging the “Waste” of Chaos and met by Satan on his return from Earth
Date
ca. 1819–21
Medium
Pencil, pen and watercolor
Dimensions
Height: 39.3 cm
Width: 31.5 cm
Location
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
PL Lines
“…The aggregated Soil
Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,
As with a Trident smote,.…
…and the Mole immense wrought on
Over the foaming deep high Archt, a Bridge
Of length prodigious.…
…when behold
Satan in likeness of an Angel bright.…
…Sin, his fair
Enchanting Daughter, thus the silence broke.
O Parent, these are thy magnific deeds…”
(Paradise Lost, Book X, 293–95, 300–02, 326–27, 352–54)
BOOK XI OF PARADISE LOST
“The Son of God presents to his Father the Prayers of our first Parents now repenting, and intercedes for them: God accepts them, but declares that they must no longer abide in Paradise; sends Michael with a Band of Cherubim to dispossess them; but first to reveal to Adam future things: Michael’s coming down. Adam shows to Eve certain ominous signs; he discerns Michael’s approach, goes out to meet him: the Angel denounces thir departure. Eve’s Lamentation. Adam pleads, but submits: The Angel leads him up to a high Hill, sets before him in vision what shall happ’n till the Flood.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book XI of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
The Vision of the Lazar House
(After Milton Gallery #24 [1791–93])
Engraver
Moses Haughton, Jr., after Henry Fuseli
Date
1813
Medium
Stipple engraving
Dimensions
Height: 60.8 cm
Width: 71.5 cm
Location
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“…Immediately a place
Before his eyes appear’d, sad, noisome, dark,
A Lazar-house it seem’d, wherein were laid
Numbers of all diseas’d, all maladies.…
Dæmoniac Frenzy, moping Melancholy
And Moon-struck madness, pining Atrophy,
Marasmus.…
Dire was the tossing, deep the groans.…
And over them triumphant Death his Dart
Shook, but delay’d to strike, though oft invok’t…”
(Paradise Lost, Book XI, 477–80, 485–87, 489, 491–92)
The Vision of the Deluge
(Milton Gallery #25)
Date
1796–1800
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 158 cm
Width: 119 cm
Location
Private collection
[See the Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich]
PL Lines
“…the thick’n’d Sky
Like a dark Ceiling stood; down rush’d the Rain
Impetuous.…
…Sea cover’d Sea,
Sea without shore.…
How didst thou grieve then, Adam, to behold
The end of all thy Offspring…
Depopulation…”
(Paradise Lost, Book XI, 742–44, 749–50, 754–56)
BOOK XII OF PARADISE LOST
“The Angel Michael continues from the Flood to relate what shall succeed; then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain, who that Seed of the Woman shall be, which was promised Adam and Eve in the Fall; his Incarnation, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension; the state of the Church till his second Coming. Adam greatly satisfied and recomforted by these Relations and Promises descends the Hill with Michael; wakens Eve, who all this while had slept, but with gentle dreams compos’d to quietness of mind and submission. Michael in either hand leads them out of Paradise, the fiery Sword waving behind them, and the Cherubim taking thir Stations to guard the Place.”
— John Milton, “The Argument,” Book XII of Paradise Lost (1674 edition)
The Dismission of Adam and Eve from Paradise
(Milton Gallery #27)
Date
1796–99
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 150.8 cm
Width: 73 cm
Location
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
[See also Akg-images]
PL Lines
“…In either hand the hast’ning Angel caught
Our ling’ring Parents, and to th’ Eastern Gate
Led them direct, and down the Cliff as fast
To the subjected Plain; then disappear’d.
They looking back, all th’ Eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late thir happy seat,
Wav’d over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
With dreadful Faces throng’d and fiery Arms:
Some natural tears they dropp’d…”
(Paradise Lost, Book XII, 637–45)
The Expulsion from Paradise
Date
1802
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 92 cm
Width: 71 cm
Location
Private collection
[See Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 87.]
PL Lines
“…In either hand the hast’ning Angel caught
Our ling’ring Parents, and to th’ Eastern Gate
Led them direct, and down the Cliff as fast
To the subjected Plain; then disappear’d.
They looking back, all th’ Eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late thir happy seat,
Wav’d over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
With dreadful Faces throng’d and fiery Arms:
Some natural tears they dropp’d…”
(Paradise Lost, Book XII, 637–45)
The Expulsion from Paradise
Engraver
Anker Smith, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1802
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 15.1 cm
Locations
British Museum, London
British Museum (2)
[See also Akg-images]
PL Lines
“Some natural tears they dropp’d, but wip’d them soon;
The World was all before them…”
(Paradise Lost, Book XII, 645–46)
The Dismission of Adam and Eve from Paradise
Engraver
Moses Haughton, Jr., after Henry Fuseli
Date
1805
Medium
Stipple engraving
Dimensions
Height: 52.5 cm (sheet)
Width: 39.0 cm (sheet)
Locations
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
British Museum, London
PL Lines
“…In either hand the hast’ning Angel caught
Our ling’ring Parents, and to th’ Eastern Gate
Led them direct, and down the Cliff as fast
To the subjected Plain; then disappear’d.
They looking back, all th’ Eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late thir happy seat,
Wav’d over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
With dreadful Faces throng’d and fiery Arms:
Some natural tears they dropp’d…”
(Paradise Lost, Book XII, 637–45)
MISCELLANEOUS MILTONIC ILLUSTRATIONS
Head of Satan
Date
ca. 1790
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 53 cm
Width: 33.7 cm
Location
Agnew’s, London
[See Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füsslis Milton-Galerie (Zurich/Stuttgart: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, No. 4, 1963), p. 43; Christopher Becker and Claudia Hattendorff, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Das Verlorene Paradies (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1997), p. 39.]
Satan
[Head of Satan]
Engraver
Thomas Holloway, after Henry Fuseli
Date
1790
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Height: 18 cm
Width: 13.7 cm
Location
British Museum, London